.this one was much bigger and therefore, different. It was a referendum on how we interact in the world and the way chosen is unacceptable to me. For that reason, I feel less and less like an American.
If we learn anything from a business oriented website, we learn about lagging indicators.
In business, people profit from being ahead of the curve.
It is easy for people to distort and influence opinion using short and simple minded sound bites. That will always be more effective over the short term. The more complex concepts require nuanced explanations and are much more difficult to grasp. Most people in the red states ae hard working people with little time for reading and for trying to understanding complex issues. Not that they aren't capable, but they just don't have the time. So if you wrap stuff neatly and simply around the flag, that will get you a lot of votes.
However, people who work in areas that are less labor intensive, they are generally ahead of the curve in understanding complex issues. Therefore, if you go to any community in the United States surrounding a University - such as Ames, Austin, Boulder, Cambridge, College Station, Columbus, Durham, Lincoln, Madison, Norman, Tempe, etc. - you are far likely to be in the vast majority in terms of your political beliefs.
As I often like to quote Damon Runyon (I think), the race does not always go to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that is the way you bet. |
